Chapter 217 Zhang Heng’s ambition! (Here it comes, completed every day!)

After Guangdong businessmen, Fujian businessmen, the Central Bank and Lin'an Commercial Bank subscribed for the shares respectively, they then raised funds respectively and deposited the funds into the account number issued by the Guangzhou Government Office at the Central Bank. When needed, they could withdraw it directly.

As soon as the money was in place, the Guangzhou Prefectural Government, with Zhang Heng as the core leader, and the various county magistrates began to implement major projects.

The first important thing now is to build the embankment. We should take advantage of the dry season after autumn to build the embankment so that we can complete it in time for spring plowing. In fact, the time is relatively tight.

Before the money arrived, technical officials from the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court went south with a quite large technical team. The technical content of the embankment was not as good as that of the Yellow River Control Project, but the volume of the project was quite large and there were many details that needed attention. Zhang Heng

If you want to turn the embankment into a century-old project, you need a mature engineering team.

And in this day and age, what other engineering team can compare to the imperial court's Ministry of Industry?

Han Xiunian is the technical officer sent by the Ministry of Industry this time. He is actually a little unhappy in his heart. This is normal. No normal person would want to go to a deserted place like Guangnan East Road.

However, although Han Xiunian was not very happy, he actually knew in his heart that the task this time was quite important. It was not that it was important to encircle embankments and build fields, but because the client this time was named Zhang Heng.

Who knows about Zhang Sanyuan in Bianjing City?

However, technical officials such as Han Xiunian don't pay much attention to these. Most of them just do their work and are not involved in any high-level struggles. However, if he does not participate, his superiors still have to pay attention to the impact.

Before he left, his boss told him very solemnly: "When you go to Guangnan East Road, follow Zhang Juzheng's instructions in everything. Do whatever he tells you to do. Don't make excuses for me. If you don't do this to me,

If you fail, you will never have any projects in the future!"

Han Xiunian was a little unconvinced and said: "Do we have to listen to him on technical issues? If a layman guides an expert, big trouble will happen!"

The boss chuckled and said, "What kind of person is Zhang Juzheng? You'll know when you go there. I'm telling you this for your own good. Be obedient and you won't do anything wrong."

Han Xiunian was indignant, but when he arrived at the Guangzhou pier, he saw someone coming to pick him up. Han Xiunian was a little surprised, but when he asked, Zhang Heng came in person, and he was immediately flattered.

Although Han Xiunian felt resentful, he knew that the person in front of him was a fourth-rank minister, a high-ranking official in the border area, and he was also a junior prime minister of the imperial court. He could be provoked or not, but his heart was as clear as a mirror. He really couldn't be provoked.

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Officials like Han Xiunian were called sleight-of-hand officials. They were not from a formal background, but were recruited by the imperial court because they possessed certain skills.

Different from the general selection method of officials, the appointment of technical officers mostly depends on their mastery of skills. In order to allow them to perform their respective duties, the court created the position of technical officer.

Compared with ordinary people, magicians have a salary from the court, and they also have some special jobs of their own, which distinguishes them from ordinary people.

In the imperial court, since they had not participated in the imperial examination, their status was naturally far inferior to those of the imperial officials.

Therefore, although magicians are also officials, they are a special class sandwiched between officials and the people.

Han Xiunian knew that people like him and people like Zhang Heng were not of the same type, and the difference in status was beyond calculation.

Han Xiunian quickly disembarked and bowed to see Zhang Heng, but Zhang Heng supported him and said with a smile: "Brother Han, please don't be polite. Let's go back to the city first."

Zhang Heng led Han Xiunian and his party to the city quickly and stopped in a large courtyard.

This is a large house belonging to Mo Yunxin's family. The state government office has already begun to renovate it. The whole building has been demolished and rebuilt to build a new state government office. However, the state government office has no place to stay. After Mo Yunxin found out, he quickly moved the mansion

I'll lend it to the state government for use.

Zhang Heng didn't have much time to fix it for Han Xiunian, so he took them directly to a courtyard, then pointed to one of the rooms and said: "Han Zhuangzhuang, all the information on this embankment land reclamation is here. You should understand it first.

When you finish reading it, you can come to me at any time."

Han Xiunian nodded quickly. Looking at Zhang Heng's resolute appearance, he knew that Zhang Heng was very concerned about the construction of land around the embankment.

Zhang Heng left in a hurry, and Han Xiunian did not bother to fix it. With an order, all personnel began to take over the materials.

The subordinates wailed for a while, but after wailing, they immediately devoted themselves to researching the data. This was their professional quality.

However, as soon as they took over the information, someone immediately shouted in surprise: "Han Construction, come and take a look!"

Han Xiunian was looking at his surroundings. Hearing this exclamation, he immediately came to his senses and asked quickly: "What's wrong?"

The man took the information to Han Xiunian and said: "Han Zhizhuang, you see, the information here is very complete. The map, hydrological data, survey, etc. of the Xijiang Delta are all complete and quite accurate. These information are expected to be

Just take it and use it, which saves a lot of effort!"

Han Xiunian looked at it for a while, nodded and said: "It is indeed very precise, but we still can't relax during construction. We still have to measure some important data ourselves to avoid mistakes!"

The subordinate smiled and said: "That's natural. No matter how authoritative the data is, it's better to test it on the spot yourself."

After Han Xiunian read the information and understood the overview of the entire project, the anger in his heart disappeared. On the contrary, he became excited.

Although the technical difficulty of this embankment land reclamation project is not as good as that of the Yellow River Control Project, the overall concept is quite interesting. It is an engineering system, a regional water conservancy project with a complete system, and an overall project that benefits the people that can exert benefits such as irrigation, flood control and drainage, and water transportation.

, once completed, the flooded Xijiang Delta will become a land of prosperity!

As a technical official, Han Xiunian was keenly aware that this dike-enclosed farmland might be compared to Taihu Lake in a historical sense as the cradle of Wu and Yue culture, and more likely to be like Dujiangyan, which gave birth to the "Land of Abundance" Bashu.

The source of culture, this land reclamation project may have already been a "Lingnan Culture"!

And he, Han Xiunian, was the founder of the land reclamation that originated from [Lingnan Culture]!

Especially when Han Xiunian saw the unique ideas of [Sangjitang] and [Guojitang], he couldn't help but praise: "This is really a genius idea!"

However, after he studied it carefully and discussed it with his subordinates, he became a little worried.

This is because the idea of ​​levee enclosing farmland is indeed very complete and possible to realize, but the difficulty is that the levee enclosure that needs to be built is too long and consumes too much material, human and financial resources. Han Xiunian believes that the money will be used by the imperial court

It can't be taken out, let alone Guangnan East Road, a deserted road.

Han Xiunian quickly found Zhang Heng.

When Zhang Heng saw Han Xiunian, he smiled and said, "Han Zhuangzhuang, have you finished reading the information?"

Han Xiunian hurriedly said: "After reading this, building land around dikes is not a big problem technically. Let's go to the site to investigate as soon as possible to see what the soil quality is like. If the soil quality is relatively solid, then it shouldn't be very difficult to build dikes.

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Zhang Heng nodded and said: "The geology should not be a big problem. Although it is alluvial soil, it is not a high-rise building and the load-bearing requirements are not high. Moreover, there is still a lot of sediment. After the embankment is built, there will still be sand accumulation inside.

So it will reduce the erosion of the embankment, so the difficulty should not be very high."

Han Xiunian said in surprise: "Commander Cao, do you still know about water conservancy?"

Zhang Heng waved his hand and said with a smile: "I also invited local water conservancy personnel before, and I didn't quite understand what they analyzed."

Han Xiunian nodded and said with a serious look on his face: "Captain Cao, technically there is no problem, but I have read the information and calculated that the length of embankment required is estimated to be more than 200 miles. If calculated according to the generous calculation, it is estimated that it will be more than 200 miles."

It's two hundred and fifty miles away. The cost of building such a long embankment may be quite high. I made a rough estimate and it's at least over one million.

Don't be too expensive. Although the embankment can be built with soil, if you build the embankment, you need to provide drainage. To provide drainage, you need a sluice. The cost of building a sluice is high because you need to use bricks and sticky glutinous rice lime.

For a 250-mile dike, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of sluice gates, and this is the bulk of the cost!"

More than one million guan, in Han Xiunian's opinion, was an astronomical figure, because when he participated in the management of the Yellow River, the imperial court only gave tens of thousands of guan.

words like that.

This Guangzhou is the Manghuang State. How can there be so much money to engage in such a big thing? More than one million yuan. If Guangzhou's annual income is invested in it, everyone will not be able to afford it if they don't eat or drink, right?

Han Xiunian stared at Zhang Heng closely, fearing that his face would show embarrassment, but Zhang Heng smiled easily and said, "Money is not an issue."

Han Xiunian said quickly: "It doesn't matter if you don't have enough money, as long as people give you enough, I'll try my best to think of a way... huh?"

He looked at Zhang Heng in surprise.

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "Money is not a problem. Regarding the embankment construction, the state government has raised about 2.7 million yuan, and there will be about 100,000 laborers involved in embankment construction. Han Construction, it should be enough."

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Han Xiunian couldn't help but gasped: "Two million and seven hundred thousand strings... Oh my God, this is not for building embankments. This is enough to build embankments for the Yellow River!"

Zhang Heng nodded and said: "Come on, Han Zhuangzhuang, let me tell you my plan. The reason why I have prepared so much money and so much labor is not just for embankment repair..."

Facing Han Xiunian, Zhang Heng finally revealed his purpose.

"...I want not only to build embankments, but also to build bridges and roads."

Zhang Heng said: "The Xijiang Delta is full of crisscrossing rivers, which indeed has the potential to be a land of plenty. But on the other hand, with waterways crisscrossing it, communication with each other can only be through boats. In this case, communication is

The efficiency is too low.

Each embankment can become a road, and bridges are used to connect them. The entire Xijiang Delta will be connected together. With convenient transportation, the economic vitality of this area will be completely stimulated!

In this way, the Xijiang Delta can not only produce grain, fruits and vegetables, various aquatic products, silkworms and silk, but also the numerous minerals on Guangnan East Road, as well as Guangzhou's unique port, the Xijiang Delta will become as good as the Yangtze River Delta

The rich land!"

Han Xiunian was stunned when he heard this, not because of how awesome Zhang Heng's idea was, but because he was shocked by how unrealistic Zhang Heng was. He said nonchalantly: "Commander Cao, you know that if you go by this idea of ​​yours, it will cost 2.7 million yuan."

Maybe I don’t have enough money to spend!”

Zhang Heng nodded and said, "Help me do the math."

Han Xiunian smiled bitterly and said: "During the construction of embankments, the water gates are the most expensive part, and in the construction of transportation, building bridges is the most expensive part. And the standards for road construction and embankment construction are also different. If we want to let

Turning the embankment into a passable road would cost more than Chengdu!"

Zhang Heng nodded and said: "I understand what you mean. If we bake bricks ourselves and then bake something called cement to replace glutinous rice, lime, etc., do you think it can be completed?"

Han Xiunian frowned when he heard this: "What is this cement?"

Hearing this, Zhang Heng said: "Come on, Han Zaozhuang, you come with me."

Zhang Heng brought Han Xiunian to the yard. There was a set of stone tables and chairs in the yard. Zhang Heng pointed at the stone tables and chairs and said, "Han Xiunian, what do you think of these tables and chairs?"

Han Xiunian glanced at it and then exclaimed: "This is not a stone. I thought it was a stone."
To be continued...